AGM - Protest

[dave.woodhall]

Can anyone go to the AGM?

It's for Supporters Trust members only.

[Chris Harte]

I'm interested in how much the takeover price will drop in the summer. Currently 150m, how much can he realistically demand on championship revenue streams?

What are the Championship revenue streams? TV money, for instance.

Actually, the following gives an idea...

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/22/premier-league-relegation-financial-costs-of-drop-newcastle-united-hull-city-championship-parachute

Those TV income figures in the Championship are quite sobering are they not.

TV and "solidarity" money equates to about £3M without the parachute payments. So, £28m in the first season, £23m in the second, and £13m in seasons three and four.

Compared to £100m for finishing bottom next season, or approx. £65m(?) this.

[kippaxvilla2]

We get £65m for finishing bottom this season?

[Chris Harte]

We get £65m for finishing bottom this season?

These are the figures for last season...
http://www.totalsportek.com/football/premier-league-prize-money-table-2015/

[Risso]

The above figures show why Fox is such a chump.  Wittering on about an increase in shirt sponsorship, whilst ignoring the elephant in the room that is a HUGE drop in income, even with parachute payments.

[themossman]

'Funny' how we used to joke about not being able to complete with the stokes and west broms but that is going to be the literal truth fairly soon due to the apocalyptic timing of this relegation.

[sickbeggar]

End of the day 3 teams still have to go down and 3 teams come up. If watford , Norwich and Bournemouth can get up and look like they're staying up, then so can we.

[Chris Harte]

In case anyone is wondering, Liverpool at home on February 14th will be our 9th TV game this season. Compared to eleven in total for Villa last season, which was also the same number of TV games for QPR who finished bottom and received a total of £64.8M according to the totalspotek.com artical.

[themossman]

End of the day 3 teams still have to go down and 3 teams come up. If watford , Norwich and Bournemouth can get up and look like they're staying up, then so can we.

It just makes the cliff edge steeper and means it won't take as many years of being badly run in the championship before we're done as a top division team. The need to come straight back up is  monumental.

[sickbeggar]

End of the day 3 teams still have to go down and 3 teams come up. If watford , Norwich and Bournemouth can get up and look like they're staying up, then so can we.

It just makes the cliff edge steeper and means it won't take as many years of being badly run in the championship before we're done as a top division team. The need to come straight back up is  monumental.

well yes, we need to be well run again or maybe run by someone not asleep behind the wheel.  But allowing for that, it does show the money gap is not that big to exclude clubs half the size of us.

[themossman]

Yep but it also means the 'big club' description is even more meaningless since gates and all the other tangible aspects of that are so irrelevant in the face of the exponentially rising sky money. 

[kippaxvilla2]

We aren't a big club anymore - there I have said it.

[saunders_heroes]

We aren't a big club anymore - there I have said it.

We are but we don't act like one.

[Malandro]

We aren't a big club anymore - there I have said it.

Don't be daft we are the 20th best team in this country, supposedly the best league in the world.

[Chris Harte]

We aren't a big club anymore - there I have said it.

Don't be daft we are the 20th best team in this country, supposedly the best league in the world.

I think the Spanish and the Germans would disagree, but that's a discussion for another time.